Re: This week's summary

2003-09-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday > > Happy birthday to you and us. Thanks.

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Gordon Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Storrs wrote: > > > This discussion seems to contain two separate problems, and I'm not > > always sure which one is being addressed. The components I see > are: > > > > 1) Detecting when the assumptions have been violated and the code > h

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Gordon Henriksen
David Storrs wrote: > This discussion seems to contain two separate problems, and I'm not > always sure which one is being addressed. The components I see are: > > 1) Detecting when the assumptions have been violated and the code has >to be changed; and, > > 2) Actually making the change af

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0400, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > Austin Hastings wrote: > > > Given that threads are present, and given the continuation based > > nature of the interpreter, I assume that code blocks can be closured. > > So why not allocate JITed methods on the heap and manage t

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ph. Marek wrote: > > You can, of course, stop even potential optimization once the first "I can > > change the rules" operation is found, but since even assignment can change > > the rules that's where we are right now. We'd like to get better by > > optimizing based on what w

Re: This week's summary

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday Happy birthday to you and us. l - "A full year has passed, hasn't it?" - eo

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Robin Berjon
My, is this a conspiracy to drag -internals onto -language to make it look alive? :) You guys almost made me drop my coffee mug... -- Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488